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Worm-eating Warblers, Red-eyed and Yellow-throated Vireos, etc

rachel_frome_ky

17 years ago

I've been frustrated craning my neck at specks 50 ft up in the tree canopy-now turning dark with opening leaves, so when a Worm-eating Warbler began trilling at us when I walked the dogs at 6:15 this morning, I had an idea. We were coming down Mabry Cemetery Road and the tiny warbler was down in the trees on the side of the ravine, so I returned alone as the sun began shining into the gully and took photos of the birds at eye level

5-12-09, male Worm-eating Warbler, 8:19 a.m.
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There were five or six Yellow-throated Vireos in nearby tree tops

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From 5-12-09 birds

Male red-eyed Vireo
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Male Acadian Flycatcher

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Male Great-crested Flycatcher

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Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk

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A pair of Red-eyed Vireo and their fledglings were moving together as a flock through the understory

Juvenile Red-eyed Vireo and parent
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I took over 200 photos, then sorted them, deleted most, and put 23 of them in a Picasa Web Album. Here's the link; Click on "slideshow"

http://picasaweb.google.com/rachelbro3/51209Birds#

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Comments (9)

blake1112
17 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Rachel awesome pictures! I was hoping to see a worm eating warbler while at the migratory fest last weekend, but it escaped me. Thanks for posting such nice close up shots. Love the great crested flycatcher shot too. What a beautiful bird.
rachel_frome_ky
Original Author
17 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
They aren't hard to miss..altho the cropped photos make them look large and showy, in reality you can barely see the tiny brown things slipping around in the dark woods. I have to locate them by their early morning trills, mark the spot and return in the light, but this year I only located one pair, when they used to be everywhere. Probably not a good sign.
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rachel_frome_ky
Original Author
17 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
The leaves are now mostly opened, so when I'm in the woods, it's almost too dark for my Canon EOS 40D. Guess I'll have to either upgrade cameras or start taking photos on the edges of the woods.

Here's a Scarlet Tanager I took on Friday in the woods above our pond. I had to heavily edit/lighten the photo
From 5-12-09 birds

but the woods had more light the week before, a different tanager, same logging road, less editing
From May 2009

To see the rest of the photos in the albums, doubleclick on each photos, click "Slideshow." You can edit the slideshow to include labels or not, or choose number of seconds per photo, etc.
rachel_frome_ky
Original Author
17 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Ooops, just tried the double clicking link, and the photo doesn't give you the slideshow option. You'd have to click on the "My Photos" button above the Scarlet Tanager photo shown, then the Scarlet Tanager photos I used are in the first two photo albums.
Once you click to enter any photo album you can click on "slideshow."

Weird. That used to work, I thought
prairie_love
17 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Beautiful photos! I can only hope I might be able to take some like these some day. Just gorgeous. The color on that tanager is unbelievable! We've had a female scarlet tanager in the yard, but not a male. Yet.

Ann
rachel_frome_ky
Original Author
17 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Thanks!
With the weather turning hot and leaves fully opened, I've been discouraged about getting any more warber photos, but today I discovered a road on Poppy Mnt that overlooks a wooded area where I could hear several species of warbler singing..must return once the storms have passed
crunchpa
17 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Very nice.Thanks!
mrbass111
17 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
some of your best work ive seen. i can never seem to get close to those worm eating warblers. these shots were tack sharp.
bluebirdbabe
17 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
oh Rachel those pictures are stunning!!!!! Sure wish I could take pictures like that. Just beautiful!!!

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